Display box



. FebfZl, 1933.

Original Filed Dec. 10, 1929 R. A. TAYLOR DISPLAY BOX 5 Sheets-Sheet l /56 *la /k/ifo ATTO EY' Feb. 21, 1933. R. 'Aj TAYLOR 1,898,646

DI SPLAY BOX Original Filed Dec. 10, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet 2,

Feb. A2l, 1933.

` DISPLAY Box 'original Filed Dec. 1o. 1929 S'Sheets-Sheet 3 J/ZIZR.

". ATTRNEY R. A. TAYLoR l 1,898,646

Patented Feb. 21; 1933 ROBERT A. TAYLOR, OF CINCINNATI, OBI

0, ASSIGNOB, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO

THE RICHARDSON TAYLOR-GLOBE CORPORATION, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPO- RATION OF OHIO DISPLAY BOX Application led December 10, 1929, Serial No. 418,003. Renewed July 27, 1832.

The invention relates to the art of f olded cardboard boxes, and particularly to display and sales boxes or receptacles.

The general object of the invention 1s to provide a novel, strong and effective devlce of this character, which can very easlly. be manufactured to sell at a moderate p rlee.

One of the objects of the invention 1s to provide a display and sales box provldlng a plurality of stack compartments and haying lwindows for exhibiting the artlclesln the stacks and other openings through which the bottom articles can be removed. A-fur ther object in this connection is to facilltate the removal or delivery of articles by enabling them to bepushed out of the stacks.

Another object of the invention is to preserve as much strength as possible in the front wall of the box notwithstanding the large total cut-out area.

Another object is to provide a cushioned partition structure which possesses a high degree of strength in itself and which greatly strengthens the box as a whole and the i weakened front wall in particular.

Another object is to provide the box with a double-thickness cushion or platform bottom consisting of flaps folding one within4 the other inside the lower end of the box, so

as to produce a very strong basal structure which braces and rigidiies the box and is lself-interlocked against accidental opening under the weight of the contents.

Another object is to provide'simple and advantageous means for holding the partition member in place in the box. 'f

The embodiment of the invention described herein comprises a box part and a .separate partition member, each adapted to be folded from a single flat blank and each adapted to be shipped ri'n flat collapsed condition to the user. However, the features of the. invention are applicable and useful in counter display a/nd sales boxes, whether there be a plurality of compartments ora partition member or not.

Other objects and features of theinvention will become apparent as the specifica- .".3 t ion proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings forming part hereof:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the box and the partition member set up and assembled,

portionsbeing broken away and sectioned y for clearer illustration; A y Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Flg. 1;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary vertical Section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5, is a fragmentary front elevation illstrating a slight modification;

1 whic the box proper may be made by folding and by gluing a glue fia Fi 7 is a plan view of) a blank from whic the partition member by folding and by gluing;

Fig. 8` 1s a perspective view of the partition member set up; and

Fig. 9 is a plan view of the partition member in at collapsed condition. I

The box proper is made from a blank such as that illustrated in Fig. 6'. The box has broad front and rear walls 2, 3 and narrow end walls 4, 5, these reference numerals beinlg also applied to the view of the blank, W erein the portions referred to are arranged side by side and demarked by fold lines 6, 7 and 8. A narrow iiap joined with one side of wall 3'by a fold line 10 is glued to the inside of the end wall 4.

The top of the box can be completely opcned for the insertion of articles into the stack compartments hereinafter described and can be closed by a top flap 11 bent from the top of the rear wall along a fold line 12 4and having a terminal flap 13 bent along the line 14 for insertion inside the front wall Y2, other joint-closing iaps; l5 and 16 being folded at 17 and 18 from the end walls to underlie the cover flap.

The box is provided with a cushion bottom 19 formed by liaps 20 and 2l folded inside the lower portion of the box to produce a platform or raised support for the articles.

The flap 21 is folded from the lower edge of the rear wall 3 on the fold line 22 and 100 6 is a plan view of a blank from l may be made' includes three parts 23, 24 and 25 connected with each other by thefolds 26 and 27 parallel with the fold line 22. The part 23 is folded upward against the inside of the rear wall 3, the art 24 extends horizontally to the inside o the front wall 2, thus forming.

the surface Ion which-"the articles rest, and the art 25 isbent down so as to lie against the inside of the front wall.

The ilap 20 is bent from the lower edge of the front wall 2 on the foldline 28 and ir.- cludes the parts 29 and 30 connected by a. fold 31 parallel with the fold line 28. The

art 29 folds upward at the inside of the ront wall and at the inside of the terminal portion 25 of the flap 21, thereby clasping this portion 25, and the part 30 is disposed horizontally immediatel beneath the part 19. `The part 30 is ofrsu cient size to extend across to the part 23 and to be kept in place by friction and tension.

The construction affords a hollow base of great firmness for the loaded box when standing on a counter or when shipped in loaded condition, besides providing a cushion suiport for the articles, which is much desire The bottom rims on which the box stands and by which the load is ultimately supported include two thicknesses at the rear and three thicknesses at the front. The actual raised platform on which the articles rest comprises two thicknesses. The bottom construction also firmly braces and rigidies the box against any forces tending to collapse it b flexure of the corner folds 6, 7 8, 10 or ot erwise.

The two flaps 20 and 21, folding one within the otherl in themanner described, form an interlock which etfectuall keeps the bottom from coming open, if or instance the box is lifted when full of articles.

At two spaced regions the upper thickness 24 of the latforni support is slitted to form pairs of ips 32 partly cut from the card- Joard stock. Immediately beneath these lips the reinforcing and bracing thickness 30 .has pairs of slots 33, the arrangement being such that the lips can be deflected downward at an inclination into the slots as shown in Fig. 1.

The ront wall 2 of the box has a plurality of vertical windows 34 cnt in it to exhibit the stacks of articles within. The particular box illustrated is designed to hold three stacks, and the windows are therefore three in number. Directly below the windows but separated therefrom by integral portions 35 of the front wall, openings 36 are cut. These openings are intended for the removal of articles from the bottoms of the stacks, and are as wide in the horizontal dimension as the stack compartments hereinafter described. The window openings 34 are narrower, the integral portions of the front wall at the sides of the windows serving to retain the superincumbcnt articles.

The lower edges of the delivery o nings 36 are approximately at the same evel as the top of the platform bottom 19. Beneath them there is a solid basal portion 37 of the front, and this portion is joined with the. front wall regions 38 between the windows by integral connecting portions 39 which separate the openings 35 from each other. The construction is such that the front wall, and the box as a whole, arenot unduly weakened notwithstanding the large amount of material removed from this wall.

In the lower portion of the rear wall 3 small finger openings 40 are cut, these openings being directly ehind the delivery openings 36. This feature makes it very easy to remove articles when a sale is made, since an article can be pushed or started out of a delivery opening by simply inserting the finger or a pencil in the corresponding iinger opening 40. The term finger opening is -used for convenience.

The front wall 2 isprovided with a tcp extension 41 of suitable outline, for advertising display. A fold 42 may be provided where this extension joins the front wall, such fold if present enabling the extension to' be folded over on top of the box. when the package is to be shipped in a loaded condition.

The interior of the box is divided into a Vplurality of stack compartments4 by means of a separate partition member 61. In the plan of construction of this member it has been an object to brace and strengthen the box to the greatest possible extent, as well as to make the partitions strong in themselves and tov cushion side thrusts exerted by the articles when the package is shipped in the loaded condition.

The member4 is made from the flat blank shown in Fig. 7. This blank comprises a central panel portion 43, two outer partition forming portions 44 adjoining said panel portion, two inner partition forming portions 45, two narrow ortions 46 between the portions 44 and 45 an two terminal flaps 47 at the opposite ends of the blank, all of these portions being demarked bypparallel fold lines 48, 49, 50 and 51. The panel portion ,43 has a downward extension 52, below the lower edges of the partition portions and/45. This panel portion also has a inger hole 4()a to register with the central finger hole 40 in the rear wall of thel box.

The portions 44 and 45 have downwardly projecting tongues 53 and 54, respectively, and the portions 46 have tongues or downward extensions 55.

In the set-up condition of the partition member, the outer partition portions 44 are bent forward at right angles to the panel portion 43, the narrow wall portions 46 are bent inward parallel with said panel portion, the inner partition portions 45 are bent back parallel with and spaced from the portions 44 tomeet the panel portion 43, and the flaps 47 'are glued to the face of said panel portion.

Boxed partitions'are thus obtained, these partitions being strongly connected and spaced at the back by the panel 43.

e partition member is inserted downward through the open top of the box with the panel 43 against the inside of the rear wall 3. The `extension 52 slips into the `crevice between the rear wall and the upwardly bent portion 23 of the raised bottom structure. The extensions 55 in like manner fit frictionally into the crevice between the portion 37 of the front wall of the box and the terminal flap 25 forming an inner thickness of this part of the base of the box.

The tongues 53 and 52 are forced through the slits in the upper thickness 24 of the platform at the edges of the lips 32 and throu h the slots 33 in the under thickness 30. his causes the lips to assume the inclined sitions shown in Fig. 1, with the result t at the tongues are held frictionally and by the elasticity of the li s.

The panel 43 may be provi ed with a lip 56 to engage a slit 57 in the rear wall 3.

The front walls 46 of the boxed partitions are applied against the inner surface of the ortions 38 and 39 of the front wall of the ox which lie betweenthe windows 34 and the delivery openings 36. In this way the cut-away front wall is given very effective support against crushing in, and the narrow connecting portions 39 are braced against injury.

The partition member when in place forms a stack compartment between the two double partitions and other stack compartments between theY partitions and the end walls of the box.

When the partition member has been introduced and the compartments have been iilled with the articles to be displayed and sold, the top end flaps 15 are turned over the contents and the cover flap l'l is then closed. In this condition the package can be packed with others in a shipping case, the display extension 4l being folded'over on the top.

The two separate parts of the box, that is to say the box proper and the partition l member, are adapted to be shipped by the folded box manufacturer in the flat state in readiness to be set up by the user concern. It will be readily understood that with the bottom and top of the box openand the flap 9 glued to the wall 4, the box proper caiif be collapsed flat and can be opened up like a jointed parallelogram. The top and bottom flaps can be folded fiat within the gen-- eral area of the collapsed walls 2, 3, 4, 5 if desired.

The flat, collapsed condition of the partition member is illustrated in Fig. 9,V it being readily understandable that the fact that the flaps 47 are already glued to the panel 40 does not interfere with the portions assuming this iiat condition.

Fig. 5 illustrates a modilication in which the portion 37 of the front wall of the box has a slight lip 60 projecting above the general lower edge of the delivery opening 36 and above the platform 19 to keep a bottom article from protruding or coming out entirely when not intended. When the article is pushed out from behind, this low retainer will flex to permit its passage.

While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been described in detail, it will be understood that ,the invention is not limited to the form illustrated and that parts of the invention may be used without others.

I claim:

1. A cardboard counter display and sales device comprising a box having front and rear walls and end walls, said front wall having cut therein a plurality of vertical windows and beneath each of said windows a delivery opening',"said delivery openings being wider than said windows, said front Wall having a continuous basal portion joining the en d walls beneath said delivery openings and connecting portions joining said basal portion with the areas of the front wall between the windows, a platform bottom, and partitions disposed behind said areas and connecting portions.

2. A cardboard counter display and sales device comprisingl a box windows and beneath each of said windows a delivery opening, said delivery openings being wider than said windows, said front wall having a continuous basal portion joining` the end Walls beneath said delivery openings and connecting portions joining said basal portion with the areas of the front wall between the windows, a platform bottom, and partitions disposed behind said areas and connecting portions, said back wall havingnger openings so arranged that the bottom articles resting on said bottom can be pushed out throughsaid delivery openings.

3. A cardboard display device comprising a box having front and rear'walls and end walls, in combination with a separate folded cardboard partition member comprising a panel at the inside of the rear wall and twol having front'and rear walls and end walls, said front wall having cut therein a plurality of verticalf rality of stack compartments, each of said partitions comprising twospaced walls and a connecting wall, the latter lbeing at lthe inner side of the front wall of the box.

4. A cardboard display device comprising a box having front and rear walls and end'walls, in combination with a separate f folded cardboard partition member'comprising a panel at the inside of the rear wall, 5 two outer partition walls bent at right angles from said panel, a narrow wall bent inward from each of said tw"partitionwal1s in a plane parallel with said panel, and two inner partition walls bent' .from said narrow 13 walls and united to said panel.

5. A cardboard counter display device comprising a box; having front and rear walls and end walls, and a platform bottom folded withinthe lower portion of the box,

jin combination with a separate cardboard partition Iniember having extensions at the lower end t'o engage with said platform bottom,;"said artition structure comprising a i panel at tiie inside of the rear wall, two

,20 outer partition walls bent at right angles fromsaid-panel, a narrow wall bent inward f1o1n` each of said two partition walls in a plane parallel with said panel, and two in-` ner-,partition walls bent from said narrow 5 fwalls and united to said panel.

G. A cardboard counter display device comprising a box having front and rear walls and end walls, and a platform bottom folded within the lower portion of the box, in combination with a separate cardboard artition member com rising a panel at the inside of the rear wal two outer artition walls bent at right angles from said panel, a narrow wall bent inward from each of 5 said two partition walls in-a plane parallel with said panel, and two inner partition ...wa-lls bent from said narrow walls and unitpanel, said panel having. a downward extension inserted between said Platform bottom and the adjacent wall o the box.

7. A cardboard counter display device comprising a box having front and rear walls and end walls, and a platform bottom 5 folded within the lower portion of the box,

3 openings cut therein, and said partition walls having tongues at their lower ends inserted in said openings.

8. A cardboard counter display device comprising a box having front and rear C3 walls and end walls, and a platform bottom folded within the lower portion of the box, in combination with a separate cardboard iartition member comprising a panel at tho inside of the rear wall, two outer partition L5 walls bent at right angles from said panel,

a narrow wall bent inward from each of said two partition walls in a plane parallel with said panel, and two 'inner partition walls bent from 'said narrow walls and united to said panel, said panel having a downward extension inserted between said platform bottom and the adjacent wall of the box, and said narrow walls also having extensions at their lower ends inserted between said platform bottom and the adjacent wall of the box.

9. A cardboard counter display device comprising a box having front and rear walls and end walls, and a platform bottom folded within the lower portion of the box, in combination with a separate cardboard partition member com rising a panel at the inside of the rear'wal two outer partition walls bent at right angles from said panel, a narrow wall bent inward from each of saidtwo partition walls in a plane parallel with said panel, and two inner partition walls bent from said narrow walls and united to said panel, said panel and said narrow walls having downward extensions inserted between said platform bottom and the broad walls of the box, said platform bottom having openings cut therein, and said part. tion walls having tongues at their lower ends inserted in said o enings.

l0. A cardboard counter display and sales device comprising a box having front and rear walls and end walls, said front wall having cut therein a plurality of vertical windows and beneath each of said windows a delivery opening, said delivery openings being wider than said windows, said front wall having a continuous basal portion joining the end walls beneath said delivery openings and connecting portions joining said basal portion with the areas of the front wall between the windows, and a platform bottom, in combination with a separate cardboard partition member comprising a panel adjacent the back wall of the box, and boxed partitions extending forward from said panel into sustaining relation to said areas and connecting portions of th front wall.

11. A cardboard counter display device comprising a box having transverse walls and end walls folded from a blank and held by a glue lap, and an interlocking platform bottom of double thickness constituted in the following manner: a fiap bent upward from one of said transverse walls against the inside thereof, thence bent horizontally to form a platform portion, and thence bent downward to form a terminal flap lying against the inside of the other of said transverse walls, in combination with a iap bent upward from the latter transverse wall against the inside of said terminal flap so as to clasp this flap and bent again to forni a bracing and reinforcing piece extending l opening with its bottom edge a bottom of the compartment so that the lowhorizontally beneath said platform ortion go the upwardly bent portion of t e first il?. A cardboard counter display device comprising a box having front and rear walls and end walls, a platform bottom comprising two thicknesses of material, the upper thickness having lips cut therein and the the lower thickness having slots cutv beneath -lsaid lips, in combination with a separate partition member inserted into the box and aving tongues on its lower edges, which tongues deflect said lips downwardly so that thetongues are held by friction and the elasticity of the lips.

13. A cardboard counter display and sales device, comprising a continuous front wall having a plurality of vertical windows cut therein, a stack compartment behind each of the vertical windows, each stack compartment having side walls spaced apart by a distance greater than the width of its vertical window and having a rear wall connected with both side walls, a bottom for each stack compartment for supporting a stack of articles, each compartment havin a delivery jacent the est article of the stack can be moved out of the compartment through the delivery openmg.

14. A cardboard counter display and sales device, comprising a continuous front wall having a plurality of vertical windows cuttherein and having its vertical edges bent rearwardly to form side walls, other vertical walls contacting with the continuous front wall between the windows and extending rearwardly to form with the rearwardly extending edges of the front wall side walls for stack compartments behind the respective windows, partment being connected at their rearward ends with a back wall, a platform bottom for each compartment formed by a bent-over portion of the same blank each compartment having a delivery opening adjacent said plat-form bottom and a finger opening opposite the delivery opening so that the bottom article of a stack can be pushed through the delivery o ening.

15. A cardboard counter isplay device comprising a box having front, rear and end walls folded from a one-sheet blank and held by a connecting lap, a fla continuous with the lower end of one wail for folding upwardly along that wall and then horizontally across the box to the opposite wall to form a platform bottom for the box, lthe Hap having an end portion bent downwardly along said opposite wall, and another Hap continuous with the lower end of said opposite wall for bending upwardly along said opposite wall and then horizontally along the under side of the platform bottom to the side walls of each comas the front wall,l

strengthen the bottom and hold the upwardl extending portions of the first-mentioned ap against t eir respective walls.

16. A cardboard counter display and sales device, comprising a container having front, rear and side walls enclosing a stack compartment, the front wall having a vertical window cut therein, a fla continuous with the lower end of one wal for folding upwardly along that wall and then horizontally across the container to the opposite wall to form a platform bottom for the stack compartment, another flap continuous with the lower endof said opposite wall for bending upwardly along said opposite wall and then horizontally along the under side of the platform bottom to strengthen the same, one of the walls having a delivery opening therein adjacent the bottom of the stack compartment in position so that an article resting on the bottom can be moved out through the delivery opening.

A ROBERT A. TAYLOR. 

